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    1. Glenn Greenwald‏Verified account @ggreenwald 13 Jun 2021

      Most k-12 students in the US are currently being taught that "slavery was not so bad" and that "lynchings and violence never happened"? This seems like a massive and very grave scandal if it's, you know, true.pic.twitter.com/USLl1bOu1E

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2021
      Replying to @ggreenwald

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Joshua Benton

      You might want to look into what is actually taught in approved texts.https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1404245820103348227 …

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      Joshua BentonVerified account @jbenton
      There are two approved Louisiana history textbooks for the state's 8th graders. This is how one of them introduces the Civil War: as tough times for a poor young white woman whose family owned 120 slaves. pic.twitter.com/oR617iSkFO
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    3. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 13 Jun 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet @ggreenwald

      Are textbooks about Louisiana history actually representative of the US history books assigned in the history classes most American kids take?

      19 replies 0 retweets 24 likes
    4. james_roe‏ @james_roe 13 Jun 2021
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet @ggreenwald

      My SC public history class was taught by a Daughter of the Confederacy who called the war the "War of Northern Aggression," and made us do things like grave rubbings of confederate graves, and see a confederate museum that proudly flew the stars and bars, and this was like 97.

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    5. james_roe‏ @james_roe 13 Jun 2021
      Replying to @james_roe @JamesSurowiecki and

      And it was a half black school. So yes? In more of the south than I think most people realize.

      2 replies 0 retweets 54 likes
    6. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 13 Jun 2021
      Replying to @james_roe @HeerJeet @ggreenwald

      Joy-Ann Reid's tweet wasn't about the South - it was about the US. I don't doubt that kids in Southern schools are taught a whitewashed version of American history. But the South isn't like the rest of the U.S.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2021
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @james_roe @ggreenwald

      K-12 education isn't federal matter but state one. Louisiana might be outlier in extremism but historically USA education has whitewashed slavery and not just in the South.

      2 replies 0 retweets 34 likes
    8. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 13 Jun 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet @james_roe @ggreenwald

      The fact that it isn't a federal matter but a state one is precisely why it makes no sense to point to a textbook about Louisiana history - not even US history - as evidence of what kids outside the South are being taught about slavery.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2021
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @james_roe @ggreenwald

      The South is a big chunk of America! And likely pattern is outright apologia in South and whitewashing and minimization outside of it. (Subject to proviso that there has been a lot of efforts to change recently -- which is one reason for anti-CRT moral panic).

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        2. Alice‏ @AliceFromQueens 14 Jun 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki and

          this is the misallocation of wokeness problem. The states where 1619ism addresses a real need are the least likely to see it.

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        3. Alice‏ @AliceFromQueens 14 Jun 2021
          Replying to @AliceFromQueens @HeerJeet and

          (Though obviously any good faith appraisal here would look at the US History books used in Louisiana, not just the ones used for teaching state history.)

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